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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. The Adjustment Bureau
    Equal parts playful, sophisticated and engrossing, The Adjustment Bureau is like the first songbird of spring, signaling that the winter of our collective brain-freeze is over and it's safe to go back to the multiplex.
  2. Beastly
    Getting teens to look past the superficial may be a noble goal, but when they're staring at the pretty but talentless Pettyfer, it's a hard lesson to take seriously.
  3. The Grace Card
    Powerful lead performances and the filmmaker's noble attempt at holding a magnifying glass over the Deep South's still-contentious race relations help The Grace Card edge closer to the realm of mainstream entertainment. It's not just a dry sermon in feature-length form.
  4. Nénette
    The animal's striking resemblance to a human is part of what makes Nicolas Philibert's documentary Nenette so evocative.
  5. Hall Pass
    Haphazardly conceived, phlegmatically paced, lazily filmed and punctuated with gratuitous moments of sexual and scatological slapstick.
  6. I Am Number Four
    Unoriginal and woefully half-baked, Number Four plays out as such.
  7. The Last Lions
    The result is a movie that may be geared to a nature film fan base but will also appeal to admirers of good storytelling.
  8. Unknown
    The weakest link in Unknown - okay, other than the utter preposterousness of its entire premise - is Jones, who as a modern-day version of Hitch's ice queens can't hold her own with the likes of Kim Novak, Grace Kelly and Eva Marie Saint.
  9. The Eagle
    Nothing more than an action-packed bagatelle masquerading as history.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
    It's a fluffy, mildly inspiring, celebration of the hero leading up to his big moment.
  11. Gnomeo and Juliet
    Any film that dares to cast the bat-chewing heavy-metal legend as a gentle, ceramic reindeer named Fawn is okay in my Bard book.
  12. Cedar Rapids
    Like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton before him, Helms plays a lamb trotting hopefully through the abattoir, blessedly unaware of the blades hanging just above his head.
  13. Just Go with It
    An egregiously unfunny enterprise.
  14. The Illusionist
    It's enough to make you laugh if you didn't feel like crying.
  15. Sanctum
    This is a movie that features not one, but two graphic mercy killings. Forget "127 Hours": Sanctum makes sawing off your own arm look like a minor penalty for the crime of spelunking while clueless.
  16. Undertow
    As if love triangles aren't complicated enough, the bittersweet Peruvian film Undertow offers a couple of twists on the archetype.
  17. And Everything Is Going Fine
    Spalding Gray himself has the last word on his life, something this exacting storyteller would surely have demanded.
  18. The Rite
    Hafstrom largely ignores the progress made by his demon-banishing predecessors and delivers a palatable PG-13 thriller that's safe, soft and sinfully cliched.
  19. Barney's Version
    If Richard J. Lewis's film can't re-create the novel's complex stew of grievances, dirty jokes and misremembered anecdotes, it's still a warm tribute.
  20. Biutiful
    Biutiful soars to its highest points once it shifts its focus away from death to ask us how we are choosing to live our lives.
  21. The Mechanic
    Despite a certain emotional chill, what holds this Mechanic together is - no surprise - the core Carlino story.
  22. The Way Back
    The Way Back diligently catalogs the outrages through which extreme cold, hunger and thirst put the body, and Weir's camera finds the terrible beauty in his actors' chapped lips, windburned cheeks and tenderized feet.
  23. Another Year
    Another Year allows viewers to occupy both psychic spaces, nesting into the warm comforts of a long-lived-in home and then, on a dime, seeing it through the searching eyes of the marginalized figures that, over the course of 11 films, Leigh has so often championed.
  24. My Dog Tulip
    It's hard not to feel a certain affection for a tale that is so unapologetic about just that: affection.
  25. The Dilemma
    Vaughn is the film equivalent of a well-known novelist that no longer gets a good edit. He has the charismatic salesguy shtick down, but he needs a director who can rein him in.
  26. Summer Wars
    Considering it's anime, Summer Wars starts out more like a bad romantic comedy.
  27. The Green Hornet
    Kato's often the best part of the movie. Britt calls him a "human Swiss army knife," and he's right; Kato is not a sidekick, but a fully formed hero who's full of surprises.
  28. Season of the Witch
    The movie proceeds in near darkness, perhaps to obscure its shoddy special effects, but the pervasive gloom is less discouraging than star Nicolas Cage's indifferent performance.
  29. Country Strong
    Disjointed drama filled with one-dimensional characters and melodrama so Lifetime movie-esque that it careens into unintentional comedy.
  30. Blue Valentine
    Writer-director Derek Cianfrance, who with Blue Valentine makes an astonishing debut.
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